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Ilia Topuria begins training camp ahead of the UFC 307 title fight with Max Holloway in Utah

Ilia Topuria begins training camp ahead of the UFC 307 title fight with Max Holloway in Utah

Ilia Topuria is expected to return to the Octagon in Salt Lake City at the end of the summer. The undisputed featherweight champion has started training camp for a title fight with Max Holloway, according to his physiotherapist.

Topuria, the current undisputed featherweight champion, headlined UFC 298 in February this year and clinched the division title with a devastating second-round victory over common foe Alexander Volkanovski – defeating the Australian with a brutal knockout victory.

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Holloway, the former featherweight champion, won the symbolic BMF Championship just months later on the main card of UFC 300, with a spectacular knockout victory over Justin Gaethje, who returned to the lightweight limit.

And planning a featherweight division drop amid his hellish finish of former interim champion Gaethje, Hawaiian star, Holloway is set to take on undefeated finisher Topuria in October in the promotion’s annual return to Utah – for a UFC 307 flagship.

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Ilia Topuria’s physiotherapist confirms that camp for UFC 307 is underway

Topuria will begin a training camp under his physiotherapist, Spaniard Fran Ortega, and will look to make his first successful defense of the featherweight throne later this year.

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“We start the training camp with the Matador @iliatopuia,” Ortega posted on his official Instagram account, accompanied by photos of Ilia Topuria taking part in a medical check-up. “Assessment and Measurement.”

He is expected to make his return to 145 pounds at the event in Salt Lake City, former division head. In Holloway’s most recent appearance in the weight class, he retired veteran South Korean favorite Chan Sung Jung with a brutal walk-off knockout at UFC Fight Night Singapore.

Prior to his victories over Gaethje and Jung with a brutal, striking, 32-year-old fan favorite, Holloway would earn an impressive unanimous decision over then-challenger Arnold Allen in the main event of UFC Fight Night Kansas City in an impressive year for the Honolulu native .

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